The Kentish Traveller’s Companion In A Descriptive View Of The Towns, Villages, Remarkable Buildings And Antiquities Situated On Or Near The Road To Margate, Dover And Canterbury Illustrated With A Correct Map Of The Road On A Scale Of One Inch To A Mile..
Bound in recent half morocco over marbled boards with new endpapers; spine in compartments with raised bands, decorated gilt with gilt title. Two small margin holes on first two pages and some foxing; otherwise a very good copy.
£150.00
Publisher
Printed and sold by T Fisher; and Simmons and Kirkby, Canterbury.,
Place
Rochester
Date
1779..
Synopsis
Second edition, considerably enlarged.
Item Description
8vo. 4.75 x 7.25 inches. iv + 248 pp. + 8 pp index.
Illustrations
Illustrated with 3 folding copper engraved strip road maps.
Notes
Published anonymously but known to be by Thomas Fisher (d.1786). The scarce second edition, published in response to the growing numbers of tourists making their way to the Isle of Thanet to indulge in the new fad, 'Sea bathing'. Five editions were to be published by 1799. 'This very useful volume '- Smith.
[Stock No. 23850]
Subjects
18th Century • Folding Maps • Guides • Kent • Thanet